Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, Oliva Paz took time off and went to the U.S. on an official mission to buy cars for top brass. In Washington, he saw President Harry Truman, presented him with a handsome gold encrusted bombilla (the gourd from which maté is drunk) on behalf of Perón. When he got back to Buenos Aires, Oliva Paz found Perón's mouth in worse shape than ever. The effects of a bad case of pyorrhea were beginning to show. He lanced the gums, then Perón demanded a specialist...
...such good news, Perón grinned from ear to ear. Dr. Tylman immediately suspected the translation, saw to it that Perón got the correct version...
...have described. The only fundamental answer I can give him is that I do not find myself where . . . I appear to him to be, and where he had delivered such lusty blows . . . When I read his exposition, I cannot help recalling the concave mirror in which I recently saw my reflection in the Musee Crevin in Paris and did not know whether to laugh...
Like many another copybook maxim, the old saw about an idle mind being the devil's workshop has validity in psychiatry as well as in everyday life. A little over a year ago, Psychiatrist Louis F. Verdel, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northport, N.Y., began an experiment that leaned heavily on the maxim. Dr. Verdel decided to keep a test group of mental patients so busy that they would have no time to mope, brood or withdraw from reality...
...great American boom could be leveled off on a high plateau, broad enough to bear the weight of the burdens that the U.S. had assumed during 1948. Ahead lay the new frontiers which the new technologies in 1948 had disclosed. Peering at them, Westihghouse Electric's Gwilym Price saw "an economy whose horizons will be almost as far beyond those of the present as today's are beyond those of our boyhood...